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How you, or whoever you ask, responds to the question can tell you a lot about them too. In my interpretation, if the person responding interprets it as an inquiry into their income level, then most likely they either want to brag about their high income to try and impress people, or are insecure and uncomfortable about their low income. In either case, what specific income level is high or low is in the mind of the person responding.

I intend the question and respond to it as an inquiry into what kind of work you enjoy doing and spend your day at. Like are you a teacher, rocket scientist, software engineer doing Ruby for a startup, etc. I'd rather talk to people about what they're interested in doing than some income pissing contest.